Over 11,000 miles covered by rental e-scooters in Chester

Chester residents have clocked up more than 11,000 miles using rental e-scooters.

A trial to encourage greener travel methods for shorter journeys and help tackle climate change is being run by e-scooter provider Ginger in partnership with Cheshire West and Chester Council. The 12-month rental trial started on Monday, 21 December 2020.

The pay-as-you-go scooters are hired via a mobile phone app, that already has over 1,400 registered local users who have travelled an average of 2.9 miles per trip.

Councillor Karen Shore, Cabinet Member for Environment, Highways and Strategic Transport said: “This trial could offer cleaner, efficient and more affordable travel for local communities, supporting our wider transport initiatives.”

Cabinet Member for the Climate Emergency, Councillor Matt Bryan said: “In less than a month the e-scooters have saved approximately 2,814 Kg of carbon dioxide had those journeys been done in a petrol or diesel car. The average journey times are for 36 minutes and the e-scooters have been travelling around Chester for 2,280 hours.”